He spruced up the weekend prime time viewing with his show Comedy Nights With Kapil and redefined comedy on the tube. However, after a successful run of three years, stand-up comedian-actor Kapil Sharma has decided to wind up the show. The last episode will be telecast on January 17.
It was apparently team Kapil’s decision to end it as they were not happy with the stepmotherly treatment meted out to them by the channel. They felt that their show was being sidelined for the newly-launched Comedy Nights Bachao, which was being promoted more aggressively by the channel. Informs a source associated with Kapil’s show, “We were told that the new show will be called Roast. However, it was titled Comedy Nights Bachao, which is often mistaken for Comedy Nights With Kapil.